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Wil and I will be at the rally in Montpelier, Vermont
I've decided not to bring a sign. Instead I'm bringing a camera.
Found a warm hat that fits me just in time for the snowy rally!
Found a warm hat that fits me just in time for the snowy rally!
Yes, that hat looks good and practical too--nothing the least bit mad about it. Snow on Saturday, eh? I will have to check the prediction for DC.
ReplyDelete--Alan
“What we’re doing is because we’re not scared of these adults, because we have nothing to lose, we don’t have an election to lose, we don’t have a job to lose — we just have our lives to lose.”
ReplyDelete— High School junior and March for Our Lives organizer Jaclyn Corin, quoted by the New York Times.
--alan
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-routinely-humiliates-whomever-100803870.html
ReplyDelete'Welcome to Humiliation City, a place run by a man whose political career was built in part on a single catchphrase from a single reality show. Few better ways exist for stripping a person of their dignity and self-confidence than to declare them “fired” on national TV. You’re a loser, go."
"But in the end it isn’t wronged women who will puncture Trump’s hyper-inflated ego. Nor is it leaders of his or the other party on Capitol Hill. It is the voters. They have two opportunities. In November they can rob Republicans of control of the House and possibly even the Senate, hobbling him for the rest of his term. And then, there is 2020, when the man who claims to win at everything could find himself denied a second term and dispatched by helicopter to exile. Dispatched and – finally – humiliated like so many others who have been humiliated by him."
As the saying goes:
DeleteWatch out who you step on on your way up;
You could meet them on your way down.
I did not go downtown for the March today. It is 31 degrees and they're not marching. They're standing. I used to go to these things, but all they do is gather people in the courthouse square, like cattle in a pen, and then have speakers that you mostly can't hear anyway. I'm tired of it. If they actually marched somewhere I'd go, but to stand in the cold for two hours? No thank you. We don't have to march in the *streets*. There are sidewalk and we could walk single file so as not to disrupt other pedestrian traffic. Why would they need a permit for that?
ReplyDeleteThe general rule -- certainly here -- is that a protest march does not need a permit. At least theoretically, such protest marches are on the sidewalks and the marchers obey traffic signals. You need a parade permit to have the streets closed off. (Speaking as a board member of the Disability Pride Parade, which has a permit each year.)
DeleteWell, sunny, warmish, no snow at all, no skiff, not 4 to 7 inches. Life is good.
ReplyDeleteWe had SUNSHINE!!! Blue sky, even!! It was nippy, but I had my mad bomber hat and it worked great! Mad at Trump and wimpy Congress people, and I think it's a style that resembles the headgear of WW2 bomber crews.
DeleteI saw that Bernie was there, too!
DeleteAlan
Aha! Skiff = snow shower. That's a new one on me. Looks like they had pretty good weather in DC, too.
DeleteAlan
ReplyDeleteSean Cleland > The Wendell Berry Society
Thoughts from a Day of Protest:
“Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one’s own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.”
- A Poem of Difficult Hope, from What Are People For?
Loyola's streak is at an end. They had won three consecutive games on closing second shots that gave them one- or two-point victories. Tonight they won by 16 points. But this was the fourth consecutive game where they beat a higher-seeded team.
ReplyDeleteI'm not really a college sports fan. But Loyola is a Chicago team and this is amazing.
On Friday, the Vermont House members deliberated for 10 hours, then passed a Gun Restrictions bill. It didn't go as far as I would have liked, but made some great strides.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2018/03/23/vermont-house-votes-gun-restrictions/33225139/